To resemblance of life that we once knew which was less than 2 months ago. Hello, welcome to americas news headquarters, im eric sean. Arthel and im Arthel Neville and with those covid19 stats of background, eric, more americans venturing out front doors looking to shake quarantine fatigue as pressure mounts on governors to ease restrictions. Florida is among states allowing state parks, restaurants and stores to open back up tomorrow. We are going to follow a safe smart step by step approach to floridas recovery. We will follow data and facts but we are intend on moving forward to be able to get the society on its feet again. Its not going to be like turning on and off switch again but tomorrow will be first step. Arthel Steve Harrigan in atlanta with more. Hi, steve. Steve arthel, one state after another reopening the economies even if they dont hit federal benchmark of two weeks of steadily declining of virus cases. Mississippi was set on friday to reopen even more businesses, allow
The secret service. We have deaths in 1. 3 million confirmed infections and 80,000 people have died. The u. S. The path three days. David spunt is joining us from increased efforts to fight the the white house. The president is meeting with virus roundway. Members of his National Security council. An emergency use authorization he was supposed to be at camp david this weekend. By the fda for the first antigen but hes meeting inside the test. Cabinet work after the plans the Antibody Test looks for changed. Traces of past exposure for the the white house said it could virus. Happen anywhere, and it happened this detects protein found in at the white house. One was a personal naval valet the virus. The fda says this test can for the president. Provide results within minutes, someone who was in close contact however, its not perfect. With President Trump. The other person is the press you get results quickly, a secretary to Vice President mike positive test is positive. Pence. Her name is
Not soon enough . We have Fox Team Coverage here and overseas with amy kellogg in florence italy and david spunt at the white house, we begin with Christina Coleman in los angeles. Christina and weve averaged 239 deaths with the past 3 days. The u. S. Will hit 100,000 deaths in about 11 days but, again, tests samples corrected from the nasal cavity with swabs. The test can provide results within minutes. Medical experts say its easier to manufacture and analyze compared to current tests. Good thing considered the wall street concern theres not enough testing president obama properly test coronavirus coronavirus proper testing. We would like to see positive tests in every region or state so we have a way to go there. You cant really tell anything ant the trend of confirmed cases unless youre testing enough. Officials in various states are assessing to open in beaches. Here is what Republican Rep jeff vandrew had to say about beaches reopened by the end to have month. I certainly hope so
Flattening as moving to other parts of the country. All this adding to fears that reopening will actually backfire, not just in terms of the outbreak but also in terms of economic damage. And were learning more about when the very first wave of this outbreak may have started, a new study finding that its been mutating and circulating only since late last year. For more on what the study means, dr. Sanjay gupta joins us now. Now, this is one study. I know, sanjay, whenever we talk about this, i say were learning so much about this, really every day. But the key finding here seems to be that this would be only about 10 of the population so far has been exposed. What does that mean Going Forward . Well, you know, its hard to really pinpoint these numbers in terms of exposures. In part because you need to have more robust testing to really know that, but i think the larger point is that its still a smaller number than what people would think they would need for whats called herd immunity.
Well in states will be a topic at the e. U. Foreign ministers meeting in the romanian capital of progress today and our europe correspondent barbara visual is there and standing by for us barbara is this really about business and trade or is in states a political instrument. It is a political message of course because we remember that the europeans were quite angry when donald trump the u. S. President sort of started blackmailing them and threatening european banks if they would get get involved in trade with iran they would be severely sanctions we also know that many banks have absolutely pulled back and were afraid of burning their fingers and they said this cant go on we cant be just pushed around because the europeans the street countries france germany and the u. K. Who have been the partners in the Iran Nuclear Deal they still say that iran is keeping its side of the treaty its keeping is its side of the deal there may be concerns about other problems about to human rights abou